Courage Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who is a firstling is ever sacrificed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He has heart who knows fear, but vanquishes it; who sees the abyss, but with pride. He who sees the abyss, but…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To live with tremendous and proud composure; always beyond —. To have and not to have one's affects, one's pro and con,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Brave people may be persuaded to an action by representing it as being more dangerous than it really is.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us”

— Friedrich Nietzsche